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AI-Powered Electronic Music Platform Aimi Completes $20 Million Series B

November 19, 2021

Aimi president and CEO Edward Balassanian, whose company today revealed that it had completed a $20 million Series B funding round. Photo Credit: Ismael Quintanilla III AI-powered music platform Aimi has anno... Read More...

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Drops $115 Million On AI-Powered Defense Company Helsing

Dylan Smith

November 10, 2021

Having attempted to purchase Arsenal F.C. earlier in 2021, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has now invested €100 million ($115.21 million at the present exchange rate) in AI-powered defense company Helsing. 38-year-ol... Read More...

Spotify Faces Continued Pushback Over Voice Recognition Technology

Dylan Smith

November 5, 2021

Photo Credit: Haithem Ferdi In April, certain activists and musicians called on Spotify to abandon a “terrifying patent” – designed to analyze users’ voices and recommend music accordingly – that the Stockhol... Read More...

Roblox Music-Tech Company Splash Announces $20 Million Series A, Touts ‘New Age of Creativity in the Metaverse’

Dylan Smith

November 2, 2021

Photo Credit: Roblox Splash, a Roblox-focused music-technology company, has officially completed a $20 million Series A funding round. Brisbane-based Splash unveiled the multimillion-dollar raise today, inc... Read More...

AI-Powered Music-Separation Startup Audioshake Completes $2 Million Funding Round

Dylan Smith

October 19, 2021

AI-powered music-separation platform Audioshake has raised $2 million. Photo Credit: Markus Winkler Artificial intelligence music-separation platform Audioshake has officially raised $2 million in a seed fund... Read More...

AI-Powered Snafu Records Raises $6 Million From Investors Including ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog

Dylan Smith

September 22, 2021

The team behind Snafu Records. Photo Credit: Snafu Records Building upon a nearly $3 million funding round from February of 2020, AI-focused record label Snafu Records has officially raised another $6 million... Read More...

iHeartRadio Just Replaced Hundreds of Human Workers With ‘Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)’

Paul Resnikoff

January 15, 2020

iHeartRadio Denver (photo: Jeffrey Beall CC by 4.0) Yesterday, we first reported on iHeartMedia's mass layoff of employees nationwide. Now, the company has explained why those people were let go. We certain... Read More...

Can AI Own IP? U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Opens Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence

Colin Cohen

November 11, 2019

"Artificial Intelligence" by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is asking the public for input on whether computers, in the form of artificial intelligence (AI), can creat... Read More...

Sony Resoundingly Rejects a Breakup Demand by Activist Investor Third Point

Marsha Silva

September 17, 2019

Sony has roundly rejected the break-up proposal, which was initiated by activist investor Daniel Loeb. Just hours ago, Sony Corp. officially rejected a plan to spin off its semiconductor business in a 8-page... Read More...

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Music Streaming Industry

Scott O'Haire

March 21, 2019

photo: Karolina Grabowska The rapid advances in artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning have led to significant changes in the music streaming industry. The following comes from NordVPN, a ... Read More...

Here’s a 3-Song EP with the Lyrics and Melody Entirely Created by AI

Ashley King

October 23, 2018

Can artificial intelligence create music that humans actually like? This has been a brewing debate since the 70s, and more than a few listeners have been fooled by robots. These days, the music industry con... Read More...

Mark Zuckerberg Brutalizes Nickelback Using Artificial Intelligence (WATCH)

Paul Resnikoff

December 21, 2016

Just when you thought it was safe for Nickelback! Enter Facebook scion Mark Zuckerberg, who just shredded the band in a recent AI demonstration. Onlookers to this bloodsport against Nickelback often wonder: ... Read More...

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AI-Powered Electronic Music Platform Aimi Completes $20 Million Series B

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Drops $115 Million On AI-Powered Defense Company Helsing

Spotify Faces Continued Pushback Over Voice Recognition Technology

Roblox Music-Tech Company Splash Announces $20 Million Series A, Touts ‘New Age of Creativity in the Metaverse’

AI-Powered Music-Separation Startup Audioshake Completes $2 Million Funding Round

AI-Powered Snafu Records Raises $6 Million From Investors Including ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog

iHeartRadio Just Replaced Hundreds of Human Workers With ‘Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)’

Can AI Own IP? U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Opens Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence

Sony Resoundingly Rejects a Breakup Demand by Activist Investor Third Point

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Music Streaming Industry

Here’s a 3-Song EP with the Lyrics and Melody Entirely Created by AI

Mark Zuckerberg Brutalizes Nickelback Using Artificial Intelligence (WATCH)